Kate Clifford is Accenture’s Chief Leadership and Human Resources Officer, responsible for helping the people of Accenture – 750,000+ Reinventors around the world – be their best professionally and personally. She and her team are focused on creating great employee experiences and reinventing work in ways that help grow the business and strengthen communities.
A member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee, Kate has held several leadership roles during her nearly three decades with Accenture across client delivery, global centers of expertise and human resources. Within HR, Kate has influenced people practices and delivered results at every level of the company. Most recently she was the Americas CHRO where she led the organization through the design and implementation of a new operating model.
Throughout her career, Kate has helped drive large-scale change including transforming Accenture’s approach to performance management and reinventing HR with AI – all through the lens of helping people achieve greater performance for themselves, their teams and Accenture’s clients.
Outside of Accenture, Kate is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of the Women and Public Policy program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, HR50, the CHRO Association, the Center for Executive Succession and Gallup’s CHRO roundtable. Kate is also active in Circle 58 at Gatehouse, which gives a hand up to goal-oriented women who are overcoming hardships by equipping them with the skills to achieve self-sustainability.
Kate holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Math from the University of Richmond.
